Re: SURVIVABILITY

Henryanner@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Other irises which I have seen in contexts indicating great "survivability"
> are QUAKER LADY, HELEN COLLINGWOOD, FLAVESCENS, NANCY ORNE, MOONLIGHT, INDIAN
> CHIEF, PINNACLE, HARLEQUIN, HONORABILE, SINDJHKA, GUDRUN and CHENEDOLLE, all
> of which are historics. 
> 
> Anner Whitehead, Richmond, Va
> Henry Hall  henryanner@aol.com

This brings me to the question I've been wanting to ask for awhile now. 
Someone else mentioned that irises lose leaves and sometimes even roots. 
I had PINNACLE last year but it died. At least I thought it did! (I 
lost 12 cvs over the winter). My question I guess would be, how can you 
tell when an iris is dead? They shrunk and looked all sunken-in and 
their roots died. But they weren't a rotten pile of mush. If an iris is 
dormant, does it stay fat? Also, if they are just dormant, how should I 
treat them so they'll "come back to life" at some point this Fall? I 
don't want to water them prematurely and have them rot, which I think I 
did! I was puzzled and thought they were rotten when maybe they weren't, 
in the dry season. Some of the historics and moderns made it through the 
winter and then expired in the Spring. Or maybe I didn't water them 
enough!  ???  We didn't have a very wet Spring this year. 

Barb Johnson                  ljohnson@cland.net
Southwest Missouri Ozarks     USDA Zone 5b     AIS Region 18 (MO & KS)
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